Sentence examples for unexpected menace from inspiring English sources

Still waters run dark in these bright yet eerie novellas, whose crisp, almost guileless prose hides unexpected menace.

At the local police station, he assembled a small armory of pistols and carbines, to deal with any unexpected menace that might appear.

In 627 the emperor Heraclius finally defeated the Persians and reestablished order, but Byzantium, gravely weakened by the long struggle, was unable to face the unexpected menace of a new power that had arisen in Arabia.

"It's just the sun," he said, as if the season's torrential rains had left him unprepared for this unexpected summertime menace.

"Oklahoma!" has always had shadows in its cornfields and a gun in its smokehouse, but, as the plot unfolds, unexpected hints of menace start to poke through the rollicking spectacle.

Ah, this is what we expect on a Nicki Minaj album: crazed voices, declarations of superiority that vibrate with outrage, unexpected shifts between menacing calm and multi-layered chorales.

Although all unexpected visitors can be menacing, few are as unsettling as Goldilocks.

A final shriek of unexpected feedback reveals the hidden menace beneath the song's surface.

Already they had created a sense of menace and the unexpected.

The romance is menaced by the unexpected arrival of Lady Susan's daughter Frederica Morfydd Clarkk), who rather fancies Reginald herself.

He's become expert at the menacing sideways glance, the unexpected snarl, the feral grin.